Apr 05 2010
Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
Nature really does burst forth in the spring. We returned to the farm after a two-week hiatus — a Saturday-to-Saturday visit to Sanibel Island, Florida — and found things much changed. We had a spectacular weekend, with sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-seventies. The lilacs are budding, and the daffodils have gotten an early start.
Here is the deer salad bar that is our small assortment of crocuses.
I believe these blue flowers to be wild hyacinths:
Here is an exotic and fortunate surviver of the predations of the deer: a greigii tulip that grew underneath an Adirondack chair in front of the cottage, getting just enough sun through the slats of the chair to survive. I hope the deer are not reading; next year they’ll lift the chair.
Of course, they don’t all make it through the winter, and we do not grieve excessively.
We also had lots of returning birds. This turkey wandered around Saturday afternoon.
Here’s a tufted titmouse.
And on the pond had we had a full complement of waterfowl: Canada geese (chased away and not pictured), a couple of mallards
and some scaups, greater or lesser:
Today was Easter — which meant an egg hunt for Sarah. Not sure how the birds feel about this tradition.
Sarah wore an early-seventies vintage Easter frock of Jen’s. She began at the swing:
Soon, after changing into tights, she began egg-hunting in earnest.
She first gathered the low hanging fruit.
But soon things got harder.
She was persistent, though.
The ball-catching game also was hard!
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